It is my will, that I shall not be buried within one mile of any churchyard, or of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist church, for the reason that as I have kept a great deal of bad company in this world, I do not wish to do so in the next.
Stevenson shares a unique and personal wish regarding his burial, reflecting on his past associations.
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To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.
This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.
And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.
We are here to erect this statue to his memory because of the unnumbered blessings to America and to the people of every race and clime which have followed his discovery.